CVE-2026-41992

GNU gzip is affected by a global buffer overflow in the LZH decompression logic caused by reusing a shared global state across LZ77/LZW/LZH within a single run. The vulnerability arises from a global array not reinitialized between files, enabling an attacker to deplete or poison the shared state...

CVE-2001-1228

CVE-2001-1228 describes buffer overflows in gzip (notably versions from 1.2.4 and 1.3x and other releases) that could allow code execution via a long filename, potentially when gzip is used on an FTP server. Connected documents corroborate the vulnerability and point to advisories (e.g., Debian D...